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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1935
Page
5
Local residents and visitors travel to and from Wrightsville Beach Roanoke Roanoke Virginia and various North Carolina towns. Families celebrate births attend dental meetings and visit relatives while several residents relocate temporarily for summer. Notable names include Dr. Chamberlain A C and H R Hege.
Announcements show Betty Glenn Barrett daughter of Mrs Lelia H Barrett to wed Paul Kingsbury Hawks son of Osborne Hawks of Lambsburg Virginia. The couple traveling for Continental Shoe Co. based in Lynchburg Virginia arrived Thursday night to visit relatives in Thomaston Georgia and nearby Virginia.
Mrs. Geo. W. Sparger Jr issues invitations to close friends for a bridge gathering at her East Elm Street home on Saturday evening. Mixed summer flowers will decorate and prizes awarded for high and low scores with a special gift for the honoree.
Evangelistic services start Sunday night June 23 at White Plains Baptist Church announced by Rev. J. H. Hall. He will be assisted by Rev. J. R. Johnson of Mount Airy First Baptist Church. Public invited to attend.
The Adams family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during the illness and death of wife and mother 1tp.
Mrs Walter Robertson honored socially at Hideaway Hut near Salem Church with hostesses Mrs Howard Osier Woltz and Miss Julia Comer. High score prize went to Mrs C Carroll, consolation to Miss Pauline Barber. Honoree received a cream and sugar set. salad course with iced tea followed.
Miss Belle Nichols and Mr. Bill Scott were married Saturday evening in Hillsville Virginia with Rev. R H Showalter officiating. The bride, daughter of Mrs J F Nichols Route 4, wore a blue costume with white accessories and is a Franklin High School graduate of 1934. The groom, son of Mr. and Mrs B R Scott of White Plains, will live with the bride's mother on Route 4.
A large gathering attended the funeral of Mrs. W. E. Adams at her South Street home last Saturday. Rev. J. R. Johnson led services with Rev. E. T. Mickey and Rev. D. Vance Price assisting. Burial followed at Oakdale Cemetery as relatives from Wilkes County and nearby areas joined distant mourners.
Mrs George Ferrell the wife of a noted Ferrellball player from Guilford College spent a week with her grandfather G C Marshall in White Plains and with her mother Mrs 8 L Presnell at Guilford College Her husband’s brothers Wesley and Rick Ferrell play for the Boston American team with Wesley as pitcher and Rick as catcher.
Mrs. Kate McCollum, a prominent local resident, opens a handcraft exchange at her North Main Street room. She will take a 10 percent commission for embroidered, crocheted, painted, and needlework items and invites local makers to display or customers to order for home decoration or gifts.
Mrs George E Marshall leads North Carolina delegation to the General Federation of Women's Clubs in Detroit Michigan. The federation includes the United States and 42 foreign countries with 6000 members in attendance.
Miss Sadie Cox and Robert Ausburne marry in Marion Virginia on April 13. Mr and Mrs Cox of Galax Virginia announce the wedding and say the couple will reside in Galax Virginia.
Miss Lillie Aileen Shelton wed Mr. Pope Inman in a Hamlet Methodist Church ceremony on June 16. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Shelton of Hamlet, taught in Richmond County Schools for three years. Inman, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Walter Inman of Lumberton, is a department manager in Southern Pines. the couple will reside there after their wedding trip.
The marriage of Miss Louise Short to Lawrence Alfred Curtiss occurred in Hikeville Virginia on April 5. The couple was announced this week by the bride’s parents Mr and Mrs Albert Matthew Short of Ohi city. Mrs Curtiss is from Mount Airy and attended Mount Airy High School. The groom, from Vermont, works at Renfro Hosiery Mills plant No 2. They will reside with the Keene family in this city.
About 100 young guests attended a Thursday evening dance at the Mount Airy Country Club hosted by Miss Sarah Harrison to honor her house guests Miss Josephine Conley of Wilson and Billy Crafts and Robert Shannon of Saltville Virginia. The ballroom featured garden flowers and punch was served all evening.
Mrs. 8. A. Jessup and son Jimmie of Charlottesville and Mrs. W. R Parker with children of Powhatan Court House are guests of Misses Lena and Alice Hatcher.
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